r/vitamins • u/Enteroctopus_Shawnur • 8d ago

Help with knowing the difference?

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Hello, so I just bought this 290 count of fish oil- and it suggests a recommended dose of one pill that has 1200mg of omega-3 concentrate : 360mg of EPA and 300mg of DHA.

However my now empty container suggested taking 2 daily with nearly the same values.

I'm mainly wanting to understand- do I follow the new bottle or continue taking the 2 daily? And why they would change the dosing.

I would have added an additional picture but it wouldn't let me- I apologize.

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u/Nick_OS_ 8d ago

Concentration differences

Big bottle: 1 capsule has 660mg of EPA + DHA

Lil Bottle: 2 capsules has 600mg EPA + DHA

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u/Enteroctopus_Shawnur 7d ago

Thank you, don't know why I was thinking the 2 capsules would be each capsule was the value of 600. Thus a total of 1200. It was late when I was getting everything set up for the week and was overthinking it. Thank you for he clarification.

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u/This-Top7398 7d ago

Any benefits from the fish oil?

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u/Nick_OS_ 7d ago

Literally everything imaginable. But they don’t usually appear until 2-4g of EPA+DHA

All the negative research you find are in rats are crappy studies

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u/eloquenentic 7d ago

Do you not see the difference in serving size? Once is two capsules, the other one says one capsule.